The NFL has instituted a new policy calling for all team personnel, including players, to stand as the National Anthem is played before its games. The policy will start next season. The move is aimed at players and coaches who have been kneeling during the playing of the Anthem before games in order to protest […]
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President Trump has cancelled a meeting that was set to take place next month between him and Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader. The meeting had been scheduled to take place on June 12 in Singapore. Citing the “tremendous anger and open hostility” in a recent North Korean statement, the President terminated the summit. “North […]
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A businessman known as the “Taxi King” has pleaded guilty to tax evasion in New York State Court and agreed to cooperate with investigators as a potential witness. The case could have national implications because of who the man’s significant business partner is: President Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen. Evgeny Friedman, a Russian immigrant, at one […]
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An informant was sent by the FBI to infiltrate the Trump campaign in the hopes of ascertaining whether officials were colluding with the Russian government on interference in the 2016 presidential election. The informant interacted with three Trump campaign staffers: foreign policy advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, and Trump campaign co-chair Sam Clovis. In […]
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President Trump has reportedly lobbied U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to raise the rates the U.S. Postal Service charges Amazon.com to ship its packages. The President reportedly pushed for rates to as much as double for Amazon, along with other firms. The move could have cost the firms as much as billions. The rates the […]
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Toy maker Hasbro has successfully trademarked the scent of the iconic children’s compound Play-Doh. “The mark is a scent of a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough,” the company’s trademark of the smell reads. “The scent of Play-Doh compound has always been […]
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A gunman opened fire in a high school in Texas this morning, killing ten, wounding ten others. The assailant, a 17-year-old student at the school, has been identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis. He allegedly used a shotgun and a .38 revolver, which according to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, appear to have been obtained from his father […]
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A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that 64 million people, or 20% of the American public, live in multi-generational households. The study, based Pew analysis of census data, shows the number of people living in a home with more than one adult generation has grown since 2009. That year, the number of […]
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New York’s Governor Cuomo has signed an executive order allowing convicted felons the right to vote. Their voting rights would be reinstated once they are released on parole. Cuomo had proposed a bill in the New York State Legislature which did not pass. He is instituting the change via executive order. “I proposed a piece […]
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With the decision earlier this month to end TPS for 50,000 Hondurans living in the U.S., the Trump administration has basically terminated the TPS program. The Temporary Protected Status Program allows individuals to remain in the U.S. and grants them work authorization, whether they entered legally or not. TPS is granted to citizens from countries […]
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